Bulgaria has around 150 stone/steel and concrete monuments scattered around the country. It wasn’t all Lenin or Stalin, many celebrated the connections between Bulgaria and the USSR, mainly the support received during the Russo-Turkish wars with sculptures showing the gratitude of the Bulgarians for the Soviet help.

Both Mr & Mrs Foodie like a bit of Soviet history so sought out the Hillock of Fraternity in Plovdiv whilst we were there earlier this year.

Thracian kings once ruled this part of Bulgaria and so the memorial replicates the burial mounds of Thracians. Inside are the bones of Bulgarian partisans to continue that connection with Bulgaria and this is not just your run of the mill pro-Soviet memorial. There was also once an “eternal” flame…which has long gone out.

The monument was unveiled on the 30th anniversary of the “socialist revolution” in Bulgaria by party leader Todor Zhivkov.

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